17th Parthenium Awareness Week held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 26 2022:
Bharat Vikas Parishad (BVP), Manipur Prant, Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Imphal East and Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), Manipur Prant jointly organised the 17th Parthenium Awareness Week at Sawombung and Pungdongham, Imphal East today.
Around 60 farmers participated in the day's event, a statement has informed.
The programme was organised on the theme 'Join hands to eliminate Parthenium to save health, environment and biodiversity' with the goal to educate farmers and general public about the menace of Parthenium, which is responsible for causing health problems in human beings and animals, besides deteriorating environment, loss of productivity and biodiversity.
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Kh Ibomcha Singh, MLA, Lamlai AC; Professor M Premjit Singh, former Vice Chancellor, CAU, Imphal and National Chairman (Environment), BVP; Professor S Rajendra Singh, Regional Patron, BVP; Telem Dara Singh, General Secretary, BKS and Sorum Molibala Devi, Senior Scientist & Head (I/C), KVK were the presidium members of the programme.
MLA Kh Ibomcha Singh distributed sprayers and weedicides to the participating farmers during the programme.
Posters on the menace of Parthenium were displayed for the benefit of farmers.
Soram Molibala Devi delivered a lecture on the harm caused by Parthenium and its control measures.
Professor M Premjit Singh said that Parthenium is an alien weed which entered India along with wheat imported from the USA in the early 1950s.Since then it has spread alarmingly across the country.
It is a poisonous, pernicious, problematic, allergic and aggressive weed posing a serious threat to human beings and livestock.
This weed is notorious for causing many diseases like skin allergy, hay fever, breathing problems in human beings and animals besides reducing agricultural productivity and loss of biodiversity, he shared.